Tuesday Links
I just found this fantastic profile of American Treasure Katie Crutchfield that came out last spring. I knew she had a twin sister – more on that later this week – but did not know there was a third sister in the family. Turns out that sister’s story is a huge, emotional part of the music Katie has made in recent years. Their relationship made for a powerful section of this profile.
In music, the “Crutchfield sisters” have been a known entity for well over a decade; the New York Times first profiled Katie and Allison together in 2012, and five years later credited them with shaping the sound of the best rock music today. “People only really know about two of us because Katie and I have always worked together,” Allison continues. “But there’s always been three of us, with one of us kind of out of the picture. So to listen to a song like ‘3 Sisters’—it’s hard. But it feeds the part of me that knows, at some point, there will be three of us again.”
Waxahatchee: She Lives for the Sake of the Song
This is an amazing piece of sports journalism. I promise that reading it will improve the overall quality of your life.
Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century
Proof we’re not the only country where certain powers-that-be are focused on ginning up fake political controversies in place of talking about real issues and how to solve them.
Australian Prime Minister’s Joy Division T-Shirt Sparks Major Political Controversy
Sad Internet news: Uni-Watch is dead. For a variety of reasons the best source for content about sports uniforms suddenly folded shop last week. I’m not sure how long the site will remain up, so the post explaining why it is going away could be gone by the time you click on the link below.
As tech writer John Gruber noted, Uni-Watch came from that glorious moment in the Internet’s history when you could take about any interest, no matter how esoteric, and find a handful of enthusiast blogs that covered it in great detail. Those sites are fewer-and-fewer as many of them either get scooped up by bigger sites or they pivot to video, podcasting, or whatever.
I’m still delighted when some new interest strikes my fancy, I dig around, and come up with a small site or two run by a single person that helps me to understand it better.